You are not going to hear George Weaver's name mentioned when talking about the favorites to win the training title at Saratoga Race Course.

There is no arguing this, however. Weaver is having one solid summer at the Spa.

The 42-year-old trainer has started 22 horses at the meet and has seven wins, three seconds and three thirds. Not bad for a guy who started out 0-for-25 a few years ago.

"We have been lucky to be in the right spot at the right time," Weaver said outside his barn at the Oklahoma Training Track Wednesday morning. "It seems like in this game it either rains or it shines."

The sun has shone brightly over Weaver's barn, even on Wednesday morning when gray skies and cool temperatures made it feel like a day in late October, not mid-August.

Weaver had one horse entered Wednesday and the 2-year-old New York-bred Hard Rumor finished fourth in a field of five.

That was the first of Weaver's babies. He has others he hopes will come out running.

And there are horses in his barn that could make some graded stakes noise.

Lighthouse Bay, a 3-year-old filly, won the Grade I Prioress here on July 27 and paid a whopping $45.20.

She will be back in the Grade I $500,000 Test on Travers Day.

"That would be a huge thing for our barn," Weaver said. "If she could do well in that race, and possibly win it ..."

His voice trailed off and he just smiled.

Weaver also had a big price when Joe Can Gallop paid $40.20 on July 22 in a maiden race. Two of his other horses have paid more than $10. Weaver went out on his own in 2002 after spending time working for John Hennig, D. Wayne Lukas and Todd Pletcher.

"It is a very difficult game," Weaver said. "You will go through times when things aren't clicking and you don't get lucky. We could easily have one win and seven seconds. We just come in every day, work hard and do what we have to do."

So far, so good.

Point of Entry jogging

If he were healthy, Point of Entry, the talented turf runner in Shug McGaughey's barn, would be gearing up for the Grade I Arlington Million in Illinois on Saturday. A June injury KO'd those plans and the 5-year-old has been in Ocala, Fla., recovering from a condylar fracture of the left hind cannon bone.

Now the good news:

Point of Entry has resumed jogging and McGaughey hopes the horse might get back in time for the Breeders' Cup in November at Santa Anita.

"It's not far-fetched, but it's not going to be easy," McGaughey said outside his barn on the Oklahoma on Wednesday morning. "I would not put it at 50-50 (odds), but I wouldn't make it far from it."

McGaughey said he hopes to have Point of Entry back in his Belmont barn after the Saratoga meet ends on Labor Day. He also said that if everything goes right through the weekend, Point of Entry could begin galloping Monday.

Point of Entry is scheduled to head to the stallion shed next year, so if he doesn't make the Breeders' Cup, his running days are over.

Last year, Point of Entry won the Sword Dancer at the Spa and was second in the Breeders' Cup Turf behind Little Mike.

He has nine wins in 17 starts during his career. He suffered his injury while winning the Grade I Manhattan at Belmont on Belmont Stakes day.

Barn banter

Jockey Javier Castellano had two wins on Wednesday and has a 33-32 lead over Joel Rosario, who was shut out. ... Trainer Jenna Antonucci got her third and fourth wins of the meet, taking the second and seventh races. ... My Miss Aurelia, the 2011 juvenile filly champion, is now in trainer Todd Pletcher's barn. For the first nine starts of her life (eight last year), she was under the care of Steve Asmussen. ... Princess of Sylmar has been made the 3-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday's Grade I, $600,000 Alabama. A field of six 3-year-old fillies will contest the race. Twelve horses were entered for the Grade I, $600,000 Sword Dancer; Boisterous is the 5-2 morning-line favorite.